Proteolytic Transmutation converts epistemic excess into reusable structural force within Socioplastics’ self-renewing corpus ecology. proteolysis, Socioplastics, Anto Lloveras, epistemic hygiene, metabolic sovereignty, curated voids, archive maintenance, AI enzymes, scalar architecture, recursive autophagia
Proteolytic Transmutation names the decisive metabolic operator through which Socioplastics refuses the vulgar equation between knowledge and accumulation. Modelled on biological proteolysis, it treats digestion as intelligence: complex materials—archival sediment, semantic redundancy, institutional residue, theoretical overgrowth—are not merely edited, but enzymatically decomposed into transmissible components capable of re-entering the corpus with amplified structural potency. Its central proposition is that subtraction intensifies: by pruning surplus, generating curated voids, and improving signal-to-noise coherence, the system converts apparent waste into epistemic fuel. This operation is not destructive minimalism, since deletion here functions as reproductive labour, attentive care, and cosmopolitical deceleration; rushed digestion damages the field, whereas slow processing enables transformation without representational flattening. Within the Decalogue layer, Core 505 works beside Semantic Hardening, Recursive Autophagia, and Systemic Lock, ensuring that the Gravitational Corpus remains dense without becoming petrified. A case study appears in the maintenance of LAPIEZA and Socioplastics documentation: obsolete nodes, exhibition residues, blog strata, and DOI-hardened fragments are disassembled, cross-referenced, and reincorporated as ImageCompost, allowing the archive to “eat” its own history rather than drown beneath it. Machine augmentation intensifies this protocol when AI operates as Enzymatic Agent, scanning recurrence, detecting bloat, and preparing machine-readable strata for Zenodo or Hugging Face, while human direction preserves judgment, rhythm, and sovereignty. Consequently, Proteolytic Transmutation establishes a non-extractive epistemology of circular refinement: knowledge survives not by monumental accumulation, but by continuously metabolising its own excess into renewed conditions of possibility.
